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The appointment of Siyabonga Cwele as Minister of the Home Affairs; Stella Ndabeni- Abrahams as the Minister of Communications and Nomvula Mokonyane as the Minister of Environmental Affairs Minister.

We applaud the President for expressing his views on the matter of equality and even opportunities. However, the union feels that the element of recycling is still integral in our government. We raised our eyebrows when Minister Nomvula Mokonyane was placed on yet another portfolio when she failed dismally to steer the ship at the Department of Water and Sanitation.

It is common cause that the reason why we didn’t see major changes on yesterday cabinet reshuffle is simply because the President is trying by all means to manage the internal forces ahead of the national elections, which in the union’s perspective should not be at the expense of the Republic. We cannot afford to continue having incompetent Ministers and yet they are not shuffled off, instead, they are undeservingly changed to other portfolios to go and mess with.

The cabinet is bloated as the Minister of Finance once said, radical changes need to be taken. Merging only two Departments will not make any difference. It seems we still have a long wait before we see major changes. It is NUPSAW’s understanding that the government is trying to buy votes and they are leading people astray in that more is yet to come after elections, why wait? Why not now? Is it because they are lobbying constituents support only to desert them after elections?

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